By Moses Talibita, Legal Officer, Uganda National Health Users and Consumers Organisation (UNHCO) As epidemics continue to pose threats to public health in Uganda, ensuring patient safety takes on even greater importance. A cornerstone of this safety net ...
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Feed SubscriptionSupporting a Mandatory Trans Fatty Acid (TFA) regulation for the East African Community (EAC)
Background, Purpose and Objectives The purpose of the project is to support the development a mandatory TFA national standard that could be adopted at the East African level Specific Objectives 1)To build consensus among key decision makers (national and regional) ...
Read More »Heart Health and Covid-19: Why Uganda Needs to Regulate Trans Fatty Acids
COVID-19 has brought to centre stage the most important health issue of our era, largely ignored by policymakers and the public to date: non communicable diseases (NCDs), the cause of 71% of global deaths per year. People living with NCDs, ...
Read More »Patient Dis-empowerment and the Rise in Hospital Detention Cases
UNHCO has repeatedly received reports of hospital detentions from patients and/or there caretakers. The media has also reported several cases of people being detained in private hospitals in Uganda for non-payment of hospital bills, despite the fact that hospital detention is ...
Read More »Petition to the COVID-19 National Task-force: Government has a Duty to Protect Public Health Laws and Policies from Commercial and Other Vested Interests of the Tobacco Industry
Government has a duty to protect public health laws and policies from commercial and other vested interests of the Tobacco industry We, the Uganda National Health Users’/Consumers’ Organization call upon the COVID-19 National Task-force to look into the issue of ...
Read More »Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) MUST act on Patient Detentions by Hospitals
PATIENT DETENTIONS AT NSAMBYA ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL OVER ACCRUED MEDICAL BILLS VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS WE are Uganda National Health Consumer’s Organisation (UNHCO) and champion promotion and defense of patients’ rights in Uganda. THIS petition is to condemn the rampant patient ...
Read More »MPOWER Award Acceptance Speech by Robinah Kaitiritimba at the 17th WCTOH
This is an extra-ordinary day as we celebrate yet another win against the Tobacco Industry. Mayor Bloomberg, you are well known and celebrated all over the World for your exceptional contribution to humanity. Today it is about saving lives ...
Read More »PRESS RELEASE: UNHCO Wins MPOWER Award for Enforcing Bans on Tobacco Advertising, Promotion and Sponsorship
7 March 2018 Plot 302 Bukoto, Kampala P.O Box 70095, Kampala, Uganda Tel mob: +256 772 638451 Tel Office: +256 393 215007 Bloomberg Philanthropies Contact: bloombergawards@minassianmedia.coM Uganda National Health Consumers’ Organization Honored for its Comprehensive Advertising Bans at Bloomberg ...
Read More »East African Court of Justice Stops URA collecting Tax from BAT
obacco Control in Uganda suffers set back in making tobacco products less affordable following East Affrican Court accepting the application for an injuction against the Excise Duty (Ammendment) Act 2017. When Tobacco products are more expensive, Uganda registers many health ...
Read More »International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking – 26th of June
How Tobacco, Drug Abuse and Trafficking Counter-Interventions Compare in Uganda Today marks the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking which happens every 26th of June. This event recognises the severe impact that illicit drugs have on health, development, ...
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